skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but there are a lot more applications and use cases for an open-sourced redis than an open-sourced twitter. Let me try again: Twitter was built on an open source foundation, changed the way people communicate forever, and created a huge amount of liquid value. Without open source things like Twitter probably would not have come into existence. Twitter has in turn contributed a lot of important open source software back into the community. Elasticsearch or redis, by contrast, enabled many of these cool new things to exist, but by themselves those excellent software components changed very few lives. If you made redis and tossed it out in the world with a ta da! very few people would care. I always felt that open source was an explicit recognition that we care about and attach value to the big ideas that change the world, and that by making the building blocks freely available we caused more of those big ideas to come to fruition. Now that the big ideas are perhaps a little harder to find we seem to want to attach a price tag to the parts again.
Not that questionable when volatility is extreme. The risk that the price is dramatically lower when the market opens tomorrow may be too large, and they would rather not be stuck with their customers' debt when that happens.
I'm not optimistic an "open-source brokerage" will ever exist. Barrier to entry is probably too high/impossible to overcome. Big hedge funds would just flat out refuse your orders or prioritize them at garbage levels.
Meh. I started my current job during pandemic. Some weeks I am in 100%, others zero. I have a desk in the ghost town, but spend a lot of time in the lab for hands-on stuff. I would be perfectly happy with a “desk hotelling” situation on a permanent basis. The plant is someplace I visit when I need to hook up probes.
Please follow the site guidelines, which ask you not to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The GP comment is no longer in a downvoted state, let alone "oblivion". Meanwhile comments like yours linger on as uncollected garbage even after they have been falsified. The thing to do instead is to give a corrective upvote and move on. Most often, fair-minded readers do enough of that to restore thoughtful comments to a non-negative state. In egregious cases, you can always give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=corrective%20upvote&dateRange=...
There's three phases of a trade: execution (handled by a broker), clearing (sometimes handled by the broker, otherwise handled by clearing firms like apex clearing or jp morgan clearing among others) and settlement (almost always DTC for US equities).

Clearing and settlement involve counterparty risk - if a brokerage can't hand over the money come settlement, the settlement firm may be on the hook. The risk of this is proportional to volatility. Due to high volatility, DTC increased its settlement costs. This isn't usually a big deal to a clearing firm or a brokerage because retail brokers don't usually have huge exposure to a single equity.

My bet is with the entire world suddenly memed into buying GME, settlement for retail brokers suddenly became very expensive and there wasn't an existing mechanism to pass on this cost down the chain, so halting orders was the only option on short notice.
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Our founding fathers and subsequent forefathers fought wars to protect our freedoms, and sadly the current generation don't value or even want to preserve that freedom. Good times create weak men, and weak men will happily surrender to Tyranny.
Nonsense.

Trouble is when government gives out monopolies, or supporting monopolies they like.

Government currently closed side.

Government has chosen atheism as its religion. Very hostile toward other religions. Everyone pays for government school, but want to a Christian education, then you have to pay twice.
Right, I’m aware. I don’t think that’s a valid defense for what RH did today and was curious to hear if others thought there was a valid defense. If RH is just calling in open margin orders, then that’s just the game. If RH is selling outright owned securities, that’s wrong.
It's because it's not an argument about the thing itself, it's an argument about a speculative thing that might happen. You can rebut it by just saying "but that won't happen". So using it in an argument kinda inherently gets you into an unprovable realm.
Mozilla is actively hostile to anything that smells like "libfirefox". This is a big part of why they killed xulrunner.

This is really sad. IMHO their adoption numbers would not still be plunging if people had a way to insulate themselves from the large, random, and often undesired changes in the UI that are forced upon users with each Firefox security update.
Which is why the complaint spends all of (checks document) 1 sentence alleging market manipulation:

> Upon information and belief, Robinhood’s actions were done purposefully and knowingly to manipulate the market for the benefit of people and financial intuitions who were not Robinhood’s customers.

And even then, there aren't enough other facts in the complaint itself for me to feel comfortable justifying discovery. For example, they never mention that Robinhood allowed only sales, instead alleging that Robinhood disallowed all trades with GME.

The best route plaintiffs have to win the lawsuit is to argue Robinhood's illegality here. They don't do that effectively in the complaint, which hurts their case (though they could, and probably should, amend their complaint accordingly).
they respond to 'likely criminal activity' with certain criminal activity?
One of my personal problems with wayland is that electron and other chromium apps can't properly fractionally scale, they're all blurry.

The bigger issue to me is that there are hundreds of little issues like this that make it painful to use wayland still.
> Though, I do think if Biden makes sure the justice hammer comes down on this, it'll win over a bunch of Trump supporters.

I'm not sure anyone who still can be considered a “Trump supporter” is swayable; on the other hand, if Biden is seen as politicizing prosecutorial decisiones it’ll lose a bunch of Biden supporters.

It's also questionable how much influences Biden’s preferences have at Justice since his AG nominee hasn't been confirmed and everyone at levels requiring Senate confirmation there is a Trump carryover (though, to be fair, the Acting AG was appointed from within by Biden and wasn't out of order of seniority, IIRC, so he has exert what influence he can to select leadership given the constraints he faces.)
Voter fraud happened. There's video evidence of it occurring in State Farm Arena in Fulton County, GA. There's forensic evidence of 70% failure rates on voting machines in Antirim County, Michigan. There's 1000+ witness affidavits signed and presented under the penalty of perjury in various legislatures around the country. There's also statistical fraud detection algorithms that have numerous red flags with regards to the 2020 election. Repeating the lie that claims of fraud are unsubstantiated is the real problem. We have a broken, hackable electoral system with systemic issues.
I don't know about Open Source - but Free Software is about users having the right to understand and modify the software that they use. This is my understanding of 'the printer story': https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201.... With hosted solutions the software runs on the supplier servers - so if the user wants to modify it he has to resign from the hosted solution (or maybe negotiate a special case - this does not seem very realistic). This is a fundamental limitation. If the software is Open Source the user still can copy it, modify and run it on their own servers (or on some other cloud supplier who would agree to the change) - but it is a lot of hassle (and hassle is important - after all with enough work you can always decompile a binary so it is only the hassle that differentiates source code from binary). Maybe if there was enough competition between cloud providers - then this could work - but I think the economy is against it.
FSF at 35: Why free software matters more than ever
I went for "Snooze Tabs": https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/

You can set a date&time it will open again. It's perfect. I can better split private and business stuff, regular pages I re-visit and so on.
I'd wait to get your tax docs before you do this though, lol
Something else we learned from 2008 is that the government and taxpayers made money on the bailout because it was paid back with interest, see sources like: https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
Living in an outer suburb of the city where your office is located is still a lot less compelling than being able to live where you want though.
Would be fun to create an index out of this.

Weight on popularity.

Track on the top of the page.
AOC gets a quote in a news blurb with an opinion on something topical to hipsters? Shocking. That almost never happens.
In the words of Joe Biden, that rumor is pure malarky. I saw Vladimir on CNBC this morning in what looked to be his home. Unless the "low-level computer science" person was in the founders home, it seems very unlikely he "overheard" a convo with the White House. It seems like a dog whistle to me.
Those protests mostly fizzled out with a week or two of the election results (even before all state results were certified).

"Disrupted confirmation hearings" seems fairly different to me from "smashed windows and doors to gain entrance to the US Capitol while hundreds of people chanted "Hang Mike Pence!".
I think it is perfectly normal that major parts of ones life can be turned off by intermediaries. It is just that they have been become rather abstract and difficult to yell at.
Helpfully?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Opinion: With such wild swings in emotion in the markets right now in general, you can't expect investment app ratings to be even remotely objective.

IMO Apple is making proactive moves to protect their store's rating system reputation, such as it is.

I've used RobinHood since 2016 (not my only brokerage) and the app continues to be fine. It's not a race car, it's more like a family sedan. The company has been reasonably good at messaging and a number of other brokerages also halted buying of $gme, $nok, etc.

So not only is RobinHood not getting a fair shake (we haven't even heard their side of things), but other brokerages are getting _way_ more than what's fair for them given that they did the exact same thing.
No, Kirill Panov is a character in _Roadside Picnic_.
Do you expect a trip down the highway will be free of highway robbery? It's called "highway robbery" for a reason... If you don't like it, stay off the highway!
Yeah, I agree and think it's likely to do well as the dominant and trusted centralized exchange to get fiat in and out.

I just don't see them as that different from Robinhood in the service they provide and the risks associated with it.
> This whole problem is actually to do with what the public wants. Designers are delivering exactly what they want. And customers are ruined by conditioning from marketing that "touchscreens are better! who wants those stupid buttons and dials", bean counters are getting their bonuses because they just replaced expensive buttons/dials (with automotive reliability ratings) with a $13 touchscreen a bunch of software to control stuff. So, we're never going to get out of this.

The problem is that it's one of those things where it's best to be a thief among honest people. People want to drive cool cars, regardless of safety. However, they do not want other people driving unsafe things to crash into them.

So we end up in this weird situation where consumers are demanding the exact same things they want safety boards to ban. Some people want these new Knight Rider steering wheels, but they don't want people using drag tires on the road. The people that want to use drag tires on the road don't want people to have the Knight Rider steering wheels. So we end up with demand for both, and safety commissions trying to ban both.
100% This is why phone and internet work together. Imagine if AT&T said Verizon couldn't call its customers or couldn't connect to other websites? Yet Facebook doesn't have a way to connect to Twitter, meaning they own the whole sandbox ....
Junk bonds. Packages containing failed/failing mortgages. Unsecured medical debt.
> And to add to that, a company (Citadel) that pays Robinhood a large amount of money for their data is one of those with the short positions. So Robinhood itself has a stake in this.

That’s quite a claim. Got a source on that?
Ha, oh boy. They were both magical and a nightmare when I worked with them years ago.

One company I was at was adding more and more dynamic interactions to parts of their asp.net web app. It was a messy time trying to mix jQuery, ajax, update panels, and dealing with viewstate.
why should they stop ? are they really allowed to ?
There's also the prose itself. I don't know if it's the translation or it's how the original is written, but I found Liu Cixin's simplistic elementary-school-level language highly unengaging. It really reads like juvenile fiction.

I've read that this style is typical of Chinese novels, but I can't confirm it.
Thank you for working on Krita.
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Granted, I've never worked outside the Midwest, and what I know of tech hiring is mostly from reading HN. My impression is that "we only hire A players" is considered to be kind of a running joke. Interview processes seem, from a safe distance, to be dystopian. In addition, there seems to be an article every week on "hiring is broken" and an entire ecosystem of startups trying to solve that problem.

Yet somehow firms do OK with the people they manage to hire.

So maybe firms could just be less fearful of hiring, attract equal talent, and get on with life.

I doubt that I'd be considered an A player. My employer already makes productive use of talent in the Midwest, but we are not predominantly a software company.
Really? Where can I read more?
Isn't there a front-running side to this story? With the front-runner pocketing billions? Isn't this how Robin Hood makes money? Anyone know?
Basically, we've learned that the current laws against threats, defamation of character, slander, fraud, false advertising, etc. fail catastrophically at handling those crimes/torts when they occur in large decentralized online communities.

Governments have no idea how to tackle the problems, so it's either private corporations that directly host these communities do it or nobody does. And that means going more years with a growing population that is getting radicalized by the above false information.
I think you central questions it the most important one, but the dichotomy between private and public is forced. A phone company is not forced to moderate the communication of its clients.
There is a world of difference between playing a game of chance, and playing a game where you happen to believe you have real better/different information about how the future unfolds. Speculators tend to act mostly on emotion and inertia from the game, not any real understanding of any underlying fundamentals.

Short sales can be good. Downward pressure can be healthy. If you think a company is overvalued because its fundamentals are misjudged, the short is a corrective force in an overly optimistic market
In pure functional languages (at least in Elm), what happens is that you have data that describes what should be done, instead of doing it directly.

is talk called "Effects as Data" describing that idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EdXaWfoslc
The reason why this happened is that their clearing house stopped fulfilling their orders (totally out of their control,) but Robinhood bungled this so badly, I honestly wonder if they'll ever recover. WeBull had to do the same thing but they have a clear reason rather than "protecting investors" etc.
> They'll probably make it a crime to organize large groups of individuals to herd buy/short a stock.

You'd better believe that something will be done to ensure that the rabble can't insult their betters like this ever again.
> I think for that reason that all or nothing is the most fair.

It seems like the fairest is to offer both and let the employees decide if the tradeoffs are worth it, then?
No "they" didn't. Wall Street is not a homogenous thing. You're thinking of banks in particular, which are about as different from hedge funds categorically as Facebook and Salesforce. Sure they're both tech companies with software products, but they have entirely different business models.
> after receiving HTML from the server, the browser asynchronously requested fragments of HTML to dynamically alter the parts of the page to change based on user interactions or events occuring on the server.

It sounds like the quality of the resulting UX would be strongly inversely correlated with the server connection latency. On a bad connection, surely the SPA way is preferable? (i.e. many UI updates would require no AJAX)

(I only read the first few paras and didn't really take in what Turbo is)
wow, that didn't take long so I was wrong about TV ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25943676

Next prediction: obviously Robinhood can kiss their IPO goodbye. They are hated by both sides now - bankers and investors. Frankly, I hope they will go under, get shut down but not before 20 AG and DOJ/SEC takes them to bleachers.
This post has 21 votes, is this some voting rig fooling the HN algos? Because in no world is this even remotely a good article, just a list of random tech products.
Here's the thing - spammers will buy any domain & spam with it. What domain it is doesn't matter. The real question is why can't these email providers with their junk-blocking technology block the junk?

Completely blocking new domains on the whole is harmful and oppressive to those using them for legitimate purposes. Kind of crazy if you think about it.
FSCDems need to have a hearing on Robinhood's market manipulation
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> There is no capital risk to holding a stock.

A broker can change margin maintenance requirements at any time, including for shares bought with margin. When using margin, a broker has wide latitude to liquidate positions of the account using margin.
Discussed a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25569148
I am in total agreement with you, this is outrageous. I'm only speculating as to what I believe Robinhood's position is, which is that these accounts are technically margin accounts and so Robinhood has the right to liquidate them as per the account "agreement".
Curious what the accounting rules are around their BTC on the balance sheet. Would be wild if they had to mark to market.
Not likely because the market makers will have to compete with DeFi on chain.
You seem to put a lot of weight behind this term, Child Labor. I understand that in the past and in some places still today children were/are essentially treated as slaves, and that’s possibly what you are thinking when you write Child Labor. I agree 100% that that is evil.

I assure you that these teenagers are not being mistreated, and there are adults doing this same job with them. Our society has come a long way. No teen spends 100% of their time on school work. Like anyone, they have a price they are willing to trade their time and labor for. Why should they, or anyone not be allowed to make that trade?

And yes, it is an emotional argument. We are emotional beings. Doing a useful job and being rewarded for it satisfies those emotions immensely.

In addition to that, it teaches things in ways that a classroom simply cannot. In a very real way it is paying them to get some education, as you suggested.
It looks nice, but I'm just wondering why there are so many python module requirements....
These just seems like a list of failing companies. GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry?
I'm not though, they can still click it and have the right to. I won't deny them that freedom.

I just also want to express that I won't be thrilled about someone forking the project and trying to go their own direction with it or something. It'd be demotivating if someone thinks they can do your project better than you can, right?
> One of the most important things to understand about margin calls is that your brokerage firm has discretion as to when you are required to increase the equity in your margin account. Some firms will attempt to contact you to tell you additional equity is required, but they're not obligated to do so. Whether or not your firm has contacted you, they can take immediate action to increase the equity in your account if they decide the equity is too low and is not in line with the risk of your account. This means they can immediately sell out whichever securities they choose, regardless of the financial and tax obligations for you.

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/t...
Yeah. In a hypothetical situation where schools were closed but workplaces were open, parents would not be able to go to the office to work either.
We are on the same page. Defi is the future. I'm hopeful this is a big step in getting there.
I don't know about that... I just meant that it's exceptionally reasonable
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To be clear, they didn't "announce" they closed their positions. They whispered it to a CNBC news anchor on the phone.

There's no announcement, just a sourced rumor, and no proof they closed their trades when they said they did.
I'm not sure if you were trying to be sarcastic, but to your last point; I think it is overlooked (intentionally or not) that the Constitution is already a set of laws and the highest laws at that. The "Bill of Rights" is not what people have been misled to believe, a list of rights you have and are given by government. In fact, they are the bill of laws that restrain the government from infringing on the natural God given rights every American already has by birth.

Having a correct and accurate understanding of that carries a whole host of implications with it, e.g., it makes the tech companies' censorious autocratic behavior a violation of the natural God given human rights that the government is as prohibited from abridging as much as the tech companies that fall under it's jurisdiction.

What we are facing, just to continue the example to further illustrate the point, is the tech companies are violating human rights through their censorious ways and they are violating the Constitution, the highest law of the land. If the USA were still a functional and healthy society any court would issue an immediate order to require all tech companies to not violate the human rights that the Constitution prohibits any inferior jurisdiction (everything falling under the Constitution, i,e., everything) from violating. The US Code even provides penalties for the violation of the Constitutional laws that the Government and the tech companies are persistently and even maliciously violating on a regular basis.

It is rather clear that the far larger problem is the breakdown of fundamental rule of law (mutually agreed upon parameters for peace) and the replacement and encroachment of ever more rule of power (I will do whatever I want because I have the ability to make you). It will not end well one way or another if it is not fixed soon, and it does not look like those with the lust of power in their eyes have any intention of giving up anything.
Sure, but I'm sure there are tons of Linux-specific things in gdb behind #ifdefs already; this seems like a pretty worthwhile thing that justifies adding one more.
> According to the rumor on Reddit

Well, there's a reliable source.
Yes! Drive-by Blue Bottle coffee trucks please!!
Obviously pure speculation:

Maybe several people on this list conspired to create an article listing their products and then all came here and upvoted the article?

There's a lot of value in getting onto the front page of HN.